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SpaceX secures a $57M Pentagon contract for satellite crosslink demos as it joins Golden Dome, America's largest-ever missile defense program.

Space Force awards $3.2 billion to 12 companies for Golden Dome boost-phase missile interceptor prototypes. Initial operational capability targeted for 2028.

On April 25, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery's robotic arm lifted a 11,110-kilogram barrel of mirrors and instruments out of the payload bay and released it into orbit. Six weeks later, the first images came back badly out of focus. The Hubble Space Telescope had been ground to the wrong prescription, and America had just spent $2.5 billion on what the press was calling a 'technoturkey.'

SpaceX secures a $57M Pentagon contract for satellite crosslink demos while joining Golden Dome, America's costliest missile defense program.

SpaceX secures $57 million military contract for Link-182 satellite crosslink demo supporting Golden Dome missile defense. Also joins software working group.

The highly elliptical handoff lane that rockets use to deliver satellites to geostationary altitude, a narrow sliver of orbital space where every communications satellite you've ever seen spends its first few weeks of life.